Tag: Chromecast

We are all a bit lazy in this post-holiday period, so what better project to work on during these relaxed evenings at home, but on a home automation system. Having Docker containers on a physical device that has access to all other IoT devices in our network with exposed APIs like TVs, speakers or maybe even droids and being able to iteratively upgrade these containers gives us ample opportunity to play.

I love the elegance of resin.io’s Docker container deployment & upgrade method, so I use it a lot for hobby projects & freelance work. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a Python Flask app with periodic Celery tasks for controlling your TV via the Chromecast API. All of the source code can be found in this repo. So, go get a hot cup of tea, clone the repo and let’s get started…